The ego is the doer, the receiver, the enjoyer of the world.
Depending on its evolution, it is seen by others as big or small. But whenever,
it looks at itself, like a mirror facing another mirror, both reflecting each
other at infinity, it always is lost in the greatness of itself.

Before, we begin to admire others, we admire ourselves. The face that we see
most is ours on the mirror. It is only with the same eyes, so trained to look
at our own selves in the mirror, that we view others with our eyes. The other
reflects the reality in our eyes. The impressions formed are already coloured,
because, the first impressions were that of our own selves, and then the world,
the other, is but an impression, formed out of the original one. It is tainted
thus.

But what is the truth is that unless, there was Light beyond ourselves, we could not
have even seen ourselves on the mirror. In fact, the objects of the world are
visible because there is light. Similarly, without the Light, it is not possible to see ourselves. When the Light reflects on the ego, small or big,
it becomes visible to the onlooker. And if the ego were not to be there, then there
would not be any reflection. And no matter how many mirrors were put before it,
there would be no face, no impression, nothing to reflect back. The mirror
would be empty, because, the object, ego was not there to reflect it on the
mirror.

There is a longing in the heart of the drop of water, hanging on the rooftop,
waiting for its moment to fall and splash into the puddle. But it needs to
accumulate enough momentum to fall. There is a longing of the puddle to mingle
with the small nullah, which in turn needs to off load into the river and the
river into the sea.

No matter how small or big the ego is, it is only an
illusion that it is the doer, receiver and the enjoyer of the world. Because,
without the Light it cannot even see
itself; it reflects nothing. Like a drop waiting on the roof top to drop, it
hangs around only as long as we do not see the larger picture.